It is late but just wanted one and all to know I am alive and kicking.…the shin­gling is done,the rains have stopped, the yard is dry­ing up, the base­ment no longer leaks, the trip is done (awe­some awe­some awesome)and I am back at this…sadly the lawn fairies did not do their job while I was […]

Am not sure whether to laugh out loud or cry. Last week­end, we took our grand­daugh­ter with us to attend a grad­u­a­tion party. As we were leav­ing her great grand­mother gave her a stuffed bear and a small wal­let. They quickly became her “favorites”. She wanted some­thing to put in her wal­let so I found […]

It’s okay…no one needs to call…we are fine…4 inches of rain in an hour on already sat­u­rated ground…lakes everywhere…up until 4 this morn­ing sop­ping up water that is seep­ing in every where along walls, thru walls, thru win­dows because it has nowhere else to go…wet vac gave up the ghost…too much water…rain com­ing in thru […]

Will not be post­ing for a while. Time to go build that ark I have been putting off.

After this last week­end of end­less, and I mean end­less rain, wind and storms, I would imag­ine that all the farm­ers are con­sid­er­ing chang­ing their crops this year to rice and cran­ber­ries. Maybe they can come up with an alter­nate fuel for those, because if our tour of the area today is any indi­ca­tion, looks […]

Les­son learned. Do not post a let­ter on the inter­net to the weather god. He will get even. After miss­ing all the bad weather in south­ern Iowa last night we went to bed once again relieved to have dodged a bul­let.This morn­ing it was very windy. While talk­ing to my shin­gling guy about where they […]

Dear whom ever is in charge of the weather.
It’s me again. The pest from last year. Of course you remem­ber. The one you never hear from, but last year, with an out­door wed­ding planned for on my farm, talked with (maybe it was more like pleaded) with you at least a thou­sand times a day??? […]

I have had “a ter­ri­ble, hor­ri­ble, no good very bad day”.Thun­der­storms all night. Got up to unplug TV anten­nae in case light­ning hit.Got up to recheck win­dows7 Am. Got up. No water. Light­ning must have hit pole going to water pump.How could we not have heard that?Call elec­tri­cian. He is not in until 8. He […]

Two men, two lives lost, have made me quite sad in the last few days.A good friend of my hus­bands was killed Fri­day night while doing what he loves best, work­ing around race cars. He was at a local race, work­ing the pits, when a tire came loose from a car, careened thru the fence […]